stream which flows, as before, through the division lengthwise; the crew consists of the same gods, and they occupy the same positions in the boat as they did in the First Division. It is, however, important to notice that immediately in front of Ȧp-uat we see two serpents, which are called Isis and Nephthys respectively,
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, occupying the front of the boat. No carpet or mat hangs over the bows of the boat, and the utchat is not represented on its side; the boat moves over the waters by means of some power exerted either by itself or by some of the gods who stand in it. In front of the boat of Ȧf the way is led by a procession of four boats, which are moved, presumably, by the same power which moves the boat of Rā.
The first boat has ends which terminate in bearded human heads, and its celestial and solar character is attested by the sign for "heaven,"
, and the utchat
, with which its sides are ornamented. The object of this boat is to support the disk of the full moon, which rests within a crescent upon a support divided into thirteen sections, each typifying a day; thus the full moon as it appears on the fourteenth day of the month is here represented. By the disk kneels a god who is "supporting Maāt,"
, which is symbolized by a feather, and is described by the word Maāt,
, written between it and the support of the moon's disk. In the mutilated text above the
